Random (do at your own risk)
Sustainable Businesses
Carbon Market/Credits
Concepts + practices
Energy
100

The number of teams in Formula 1.

What is 10?

100

This deceptive practice involves misleading consumers about the environmental benefits of a product, service, or company.

What is Greenwashing?

100

This practice involves compensating for carbon emissions by investing in projects that reduce or remove an equivalent amount of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

What is Carbon Offsetting?

100

This type of investment considers environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors alongside financial returns. 

A. Stock Investment

B. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)

C. Hybrid Investments

D. Sustainable Investments

What is D. Sustainable Investments?

100

This energy source, derived from sunlight, is becoming increasingly popular for businesses aiming to reduce their carbon footprint.

What is Solar Energy?
200

Who won the Champions League for the 23/24 season?

What is Real Madrid

200

This term refers to a company's initiatives to assess and take responsibility for its effects on environmental and social wellbeing. 

A. Market Responsibility

B. Social Responsibility

C. Taking Charge

D. Caring

What is B. Social Responsibility?

200

These policy tools impose a cost on carbon emissions, either through taxes or cap-and-trade systems, to incentivize businesses to reduce their carbon footprint. 

A. Carbon Credits

B. Carbon accounting

C. Carbon Counting Mechanism

D. Credit accounting Mechanism

What is C. Carbon Counting Mechanism? 

200

This concept promotes reducing waste and maximizing the lifespan of products by reusing, repairing, and recycling. 

A. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

B. Circular Economy

C. Recycle Chain

D. Carbon Footprint

What is B. Circular Economy?

200

Energy generated from the movement of flowing or falling water, such as at dams using underwater turbines.

What is Hydropower energy?

300

How does Little John expand his room?

What is

Galvanized Square Steel

Eco-Friendly Wood Veneers

Screws from Aunt

300

This ambitious goal, increasingly adopted by businesses and governments, aims to balance the amount of greenhouse gases emitted with the amount removed from the atmosphere. 

A. Carbon Reducage

B. Net Zero Emissions

C. Footprint Removal

D. Balancing Act

What is B. Net Zero Emissions? 

300

What is the primary purpose of a carbon market in relation to carbon credits?

a) To generate revenue for environmental clean-up projects 

b) To create a financial incentive for reducing emissions

c) To track and monitor global carbon dioxide levels 

d) To establish a standardized price for pollution

What is B?

B) To create a financial incentive for reducing emissions

300

These are the unintended environmental consequences of economic activities that are not reflected in the cost of goods and services. 

A. Environmental externalities 

B. Unintended Consequences

C. Excess Impacts

D. Additional Impacts

What is A. Environmental externalities?

300

The clean and renewable energy obtained by taking advantage of the force of the wind that is produced on the high seas.

A. Offshore Wind

B. Onshore Wind

C. Transmission 

D. Ocean Energy

What is A. Offshore Wind energy?

400

The philosopher who stated "That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger"

Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?

400

What is a significant financial benefit for companies that integrate sustainability into their business models? a) Higher short-term operational costs
b) Reduced access to capital
c) Improved long-term profitability through efficiency gains and innovation
d) Increased regulatory penalties

What is C?

C) Improved long-term profitability through efficiency gains and innovation

400

Which of the following will most likely lead to the least leakage?

a) Reducing farm methane
b) Fuel-efficient cookstoves
c) Planting next to forest
d) Landfill capture (weak regs) 

What is A?

A) Reducing farm methane 

400

What is the name of the United Nations' framework adopted in 2015 to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all? 

a) Kyoto Protocol
b) Paris Agreement
c) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
d) Agenda 21


What is C

c) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

400

The biggest issue with water/hydropower energy.

A. Too expensive 

B. Not accessible enough

C. Affects the natural environment

D. Too many reservoirs 

What is C. Affects the natural environment? 

500

The day TikTok was filled with slideshows of explicit adult content.

When was December 22nd, 2022?

500

This design framework, inspired by nature, aims to create products that can be continuously recycled or repurposed, eliminating the concept of waste. 

A. Reducage Design

B. Carbon Design

C. Stellar Design

D. Cradle to Cradle Design

What is D. Cradle to Cradle Design? 

500

Nested offsetting can have advantages and disadvantages. Which of the following is a potential DISADVANTAGE of nested offsetting?

a) It creates a financial incentive for companies to reduce emissions throughout their supply chain. 

b) It can help to achieve overall emission reductions beyond a single company's direct control.

c) It increases the complexity of carbon credit accounting and verification. 

d) It reduces the transparency of the carbon market for consumers.

What is B?

B) It can help to achieve overall emission reductions beyond a single company's direct control.

500

A clothing company launches a new jacket line advertised as:

  • Made from recycled materials.

Which of the following sustainability principles does this MOST CLOSELY represent?

a) Reduce overall consumption 

b) Use renewable resources 

c) Extend product life cycle 

d) Minimize environmental impact throughout the supply chain

What is D?

d) Minimize environmental impact throughout the supply chain

500

Which of the following strategies can MOST effectively address the intermittency issue when integrating large amounts of renewable energy sources into the power grid?

a) Building more traditional power plants (coal, natural gas) to act as backup. 

b) Developing large-scale energy storage solutions (batteries, pumped hydro). 

c) Encouraging energy efficiency measures to reduce overall demand. 

d) Implementing dynamic pricing models that adjust electricity costs based on real-time supply and demand.

What is B?

b) Developing large-scale energy storage solutions (batteries, pumped hydro).